"'The Towers,' Sussex."
The audience again voiced its sentiments; this time to the effect that the prisoner was "a 'owling swell"; but order was restored and the case once more proceeded.
"What is your profession?"
"I am a clerk in the War Office."
"Does not that interfere with the management of your estate?" asked his interlocutor, to whom the last two statements savoured of contradiction.
"I have just succeeded to the estate, through the death of an elder brother."
"Ah, I see. Now in regard to last evening. Do you admit meeting at the George the person who calls himself Charles Smith?"
"Yes."
"Did not you represent yourself to him as being Richard Allingford?"
"Yes."